The Crime in Mind: Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel

This interdisciplinary study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's particular power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirms them. By means of connecting major novelists with prominent jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers profound new ways of thinking about the Victorian period.Lisa Rodensky is the author of 'The Crime in Mind: Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel', published 2003 under ISBN 9780195150735 and ISBN 0195150732.